Town of Stratford, CT
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2023-12-04
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The Code
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Part II, General Legislation
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Chapter 44 Air Pollution
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Article I Smoke
- Charter of the Town of Stratford
- Ch C Charter of the Town of Stratford
- The Code
- Part I, Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 3 (Reserved)
- Ch 5 Boards, Commissions and Agencies
- Ch 6 Citation Hearings, Office of
- Ch 7 Committees
- Ch 8 Contracts
- Ch 11 Elections
- Ch 12 Eminent Domain
- Ch 13 Energy Management Services
- Ch 14 Finances
- Ch 15 Fiscal Year
- Ch 17 Justices of the Peace
- Ch 22 Officers and Employees
- Ch 25 Personnel Policies
- Ch 27 Recognition of Individuals
- Ch 29 Regional Planning
- Ch 30 Registrars of Voters
- Ch 32 Terms of Office
- Ch 33 Town Council
- Ch 35 Town Property, Sale of
- Ch 38 Volunteer Fire Companies
- Ch 39 Water Pollution Control Authority
- Ch 40 Web Site
- Part II, General Legislation
- Ch 42 Adult-Oriented Establishments
- Ch 44 Air Pollution
- Ch 44 Art I Smoke
- § 44-1 Ringelmann Smoke Chart to be standard.
- § 44-2 When smoke is considered dense.
- § 44-3 Declaration of nuisance.
- § 44-4 Prohibited discharge.
- § 44-5 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 45 Airport Zoning
- Ch 46 Alarm Devices
- Ch 47 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 48 All-Terrain Vehicles
- Ch 49 Amusements and Amusement Devices
- Ch 52 Auctions and Auctioneers
- Ch 55 Barbershops, Hairdressing and Cosmetology Shops
- Ch 58 Bingo and Other Games of Chance
- Ch 59 Body-Piercing and Tattoo Establishments
- Ch 60 Vessel-Launching Facilities
- Ch 62 Building Construction
- Ch 80 Defibrillators
- Ch 83 Dogs and Other Animals
- Ch 88 EMS Funding
- Ch 93 Explosives
- Ch 102 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 105 Food-Handling Establishments
- Ch 108 (Reserved)
- Ch 110 Gas-Burning Appliances
- Ch 112 Greenway Improvement
- Ch 113 Groundwater and Vapor Intrusion Zones
- Ch 114 Harbor Management Area
- Ch 116 Hawkers, Peddlers and Solicitors
- Ch 118 Hazardous Wastes, Transport of
- Ch 120 Health Regulations
- Ch 121 Historic District
- Ch 123 Housing Standards
- Ch 133 Littering
- Ch 135 Massage Parlors
- Ch 137 Milk and Milk Products
- Ch 139 Natural Gas and Oil Extraction
- Ch 140 Newspapers
- Ch 142 Noise
- Ch 143 Nuclear Free Zone
- Ch 144 Numbering of Buildings
- Ch 147 Obscenity
- Ch 152 Parks and Beaches
- Ch 153 Pawnbrokers
- Ch 154 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 159 Property, Lost and Unclaimed
- Ch 161 Property Maintenance
- Ch 165 Recycling
- Ch 172 Sewers
- Ch 175 Shellfish
- Ch 178 Skateboards
- Ch 182 Solid Waste
- Ch 186 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 188 Swimming Pools
- Ch 191 Taxation
- Ch 196 Tow Trucks
- Ch 198 Trailers
- Ch 200 Trees, Shrubs and Woody Vegetation
- Ch 202 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 203 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 205 Vehicles, Removal of
- Ch 209 Water
- Ch 210 Waterfront and Harbor Management
- Ch 212 Weapons
- Ch 214 Weeds
- Ch 217 Wetlands and Watercourses
- Appendix
- Ch A220 Zoning
- Ch A221 Subdivision of Land
- Ch A222 Special Laws
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Adopted as Secs. 23-1 through 23-5 of the
1963 Code]
For the purpose of grading the density of smoke,
the Ringelmann Chart, as now published and used by the United States
Bureau of Mines, which is hereby made a part of this chapter by reference,
shall be the standard.
Smoke shall be considered dense when it is equal
to or of greater density than Diagram No. 2 of such chart.
[Amended 3-12-2007 by Ord. No. 07-03]
The creation or discharge within the Town of
dense smoke is prohibited and is hereby declared to be a nuisance
and may be summarily abated by the Mayor or by anyone he may authorize
for such purposes. Such abatement may be in addition to the fines
and penalties hereinafter provided.
No person shall cause, suffer or allow smoke,
fumes or offensive odors to be discharged from any building, vessel,
engine, vehicle or other places or premises within the Town in such
manner, of such quality or in such quantity as to annoy or disturb
unreasonably or to endanger the health of any person or as to damage
or render unsightly any property or thing; the discharge of smoke,
the density of which shall not exceed Diagram No. 3 of the Ringelmann
Chart, provided that it causes no actual damage and does not endanger
health, shall be permitted for eight minutes in any 60 consecutive
minutes and for a period not to exceed 20 consecutive minutes in a
period of one day of 24 hours and during such time as the firebox
is being cleaned or a new fire being built therein.
All persons causing, participating or in any
way responsible for any violation of the provisions of this chapter
shall be severally guilty of such violation and shall each be fined
not more than $100.
